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JavaScript Developer (Brighton, UK)

We’re look­ing for a JavaScript Devel­op­er with a back­ground in Node.js to join our friend­ly team in the heart of Brighton. You’ll be part of our inno­va­tion team, devel­op­ing new ways for employ­ers to bet­ter com­mu­ni­cate with jobseekers.

You will be work­ing with­in a mul­ti-dis­ci­plined team using the mod­ern JavaScript tools and pat­terns. Our prod­ucts are built as a num­ber of Vue client-side apps. We are mak­ing exten­sive use of Node.js APIs for serv­er-side ren­der­ing and advanced gath­er­ing of brand mate­r­i­al from cus­tomer websites.

You’ll be tack­ling the inter­est­ing and often com­plex chal­lenge of how we can bring togeth­er employ­ers and job­seek­ers in pow­er­ful new ways.

Madgex builds recruit­ment tech­nol­o­gy for some of the world’s lead­ing brands, like the New York Times, The Guardian, Finan­cial Times and many oth­ers. We focus on cre­at­ing the best con­nec­tions between the mil­lions of tal­ent­ed peo­ple and employ­ers that use our platforms.

We’re rev­o­lu­tion­is­ing the job board indus­try, design­ing new expe­ri­ences for job­seek­ers and giv­ing employ­ers the abil­i­ty to show­case what makes them unique. Our approach is dri­ven by data and machine learn­ing, mak­ing the most of the 12million job search­es that hap­pen across our prod­ucts each month.

Require­ments

Your role is essen­tial in help­ing archi­tect and devel­op the under­ly­ing serv­er-side ser­vices for our new products:

SQL knowl­edge (MySQL or Post­gres) and famil­iar­i­ty with tech­niques to iden­ti­fy slow queries and debugging

Dock­er ecosys­tem and con­tain­er orches­tra­tion sys­tems such as ECS or Kubernetes

Ben­e­fits

At Madgex, we are a com­mu­ni­ty. We’re a friend­ly bunch with pas­sion, ambi­tion and we thrive on team work, learn­ing and devel­op­ment, and our reg­u­lar social gatherings

A salary of £40,000-£50,000, reviewed annually

25 days’ hol­i­day, increas­ing each year you work with us up 30 days

Flex­i­ble work­ing and enhanced family/​partner friend­ly poli­cies

Gen­uine com­mit­ment to your health and well-being, includ­ing Sim­ply Health Cash Plan, Perk­box, Cycle to Work scheme and a whole host of activ­i­ties and approach­es from Yoga to massages

We’re com­mit­ted to your per­son­al career growth through learning

Free Food Fri­days includ­ing sal­ad, cake and our infa­mous Deli Day

Team socials – we’ve had every­thing from BBQs and boot­camps to beer and our annu­al birth­day bash

What we value

Design for people

Our prod­ucts need to be easy to use, rel­e­vant and acces­si­ble. Bal­anc­ing user needs with busi­ness objec­tives is cru­cial to our suc­cess. We con­stant­ly re-eval­u­ate how we can deliv­er the best user expe­ri­ences for every­one who use the prod­ucts and ser­vices we build.

Build for the future

Our prod­ucts and ser­vices will evolve and devel­op over time, so they need to be robust and easy to main­tain. Striv­ing to make code as clear & effi­cient as pos­si­ble to help us to remain nim­ble to change and main­tain per­for­mance.

Share and learn together

Col­lab­o­ra­tion through­out the design and build process is essen­tial. Shar­ing our ideas and exper­tise with each oth­er, our clients and the wider web com­mu­ni­ty makes us bet­ter at what we do.

Inter­est­ed?

Send us your CV along with a cov­er­ing let­ter telling us about you, your career, your ambi­tions and why you think you’d be a great fit with­in our team. We look for­ward to hear­ing from you.